The other day I was checking my hotmail account to curiously check how many spam emails have made it to my inbox. To my surprise I found out a “hidden feature” on hotmail to forward mail to another email account. This is what I needed. Well I wouldn’t have to bother checking this account again. After all, I’m having trouble remembering the password and it would take some brain cell crunching to figure that out. Anyways, if you’re interested (probably you’re not), the feature is under options -> “forward mail to another account”.
A light bulb switched on in my head! I was thinking about forwarding mail to my gmail account however I got a little nice error message saying: You’re only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again. This sort of message simply implies that Microsoft is more than aware that their competitors offer a better service.. Why not try and beat them? Ok, so after reading the message I thought why not forward the hotmail account to a custom domain which in turn redirects to gmail anyway? I was so wrong! When I typed in my email @ custom domain I got the same error message again. “Microsoft”, I’m honestly dumbfounded! Why would you want to tell me that your competition is better and then offer me a service that doesn’t work? For god’s sake, why would I want to forward mail to another hotmail, msn or live account? Apparently this is the only forwarding that works.
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